Historical Documents

Provisional Instruction on the Use of Psychological Warfare – TTA 117

Summary in French of the “JAPAN 2000” report commissioned by the CIA in 1991.

After the economic setbacks suffered by its industry against Japan in the decades following the Second World War, the American Empire decided to counterattack. In 1991, the CIA commissioned a report soberly titled Japan 2000 from a panel of experts such as MITI academic specialist Chalmers Johnson, Robert Mac Farlane, former assistant to President Reagan at the National Security Council, and Tim Stone, Motorola’s Global Intelligence Director, Vice President of the company, and former scientific and technological intelligence specialist within the CIA. Although it concludes by denouncing the antinomy that exists between Japanese economic culture and that of the West (and particularly the United States), it nevertheless highlights the fact that Japan built its superiority on information and knowledge acquisition, and that this is a logic to be imitated. This report would not be published… but a summary was circulated in France within circles close to HEC. CR 451, in its desire to preserve the memory of major documents on economic warfare, offers you here a summary in French found in the old trunk of a dusty attic. It constitutes an exceptional document that says as much about the United States as it does about Japan.